The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-10-27

VI Oll6 SOuUn Is employed To-Day, ana
why is thisp Why are they so employ
edp Plainly because they want
TO MAKE A SOLID NORTH
that can rule this country and keep Re-
publicans in Office for generations to
come. BY this means they hope to rule
this country, and say there is nothing
more unpatriotic than that. 1t is wrong
to have the south solid for one party;
it is just as wrong to have the north
solid for another. They condemn them
selves by their own actions in attempt
ing to maintain solid north. But
what is this solid sOuthp The ghost
that disturbs the sleep of Governor For
aker Ilaughterb and raises gOblins and
hobg0blins that disturb
MY USUALLY STEADY FRIEND.
John Sherman. Applause.l What
made the solid south? Don't they know
that before the war there was no solid
south. Kentucky and Tennessee gen
orally, Georgia almost always, and Flor
ida and Louisiana frequently cast their
electoral votes for Wing candidates and
against the Democrats. Neither was
the north solid. State after state that is
now Republican cast its vote against
the Wings, while New Hampshire and
| New Jersey were Democratic and Penn
! SylYania was known as the Keystone
state of Democracy, while Ohio voted
the Democratic ticket nearly as often
as the Whig. 1t was not until the Re
publican party sprang into existence i'll
1856 that
SECTIONAL LINES WERE DRAWN
and the people on one side fell into o'One
party, the people on the other fell into
another, and their consolidation did not
take place till after the war. The Su-
preme court, through its chief justice,
Solomon z. Chase, said that this was a
! great, indestructible union of states;
that the general government was indOs-
! soluble and the state governments were
the same. But did the federal leaders
accept this decision? They had taught
the people that this court was the final
appeal, the highest authority on such
questions, but when that court held that
| this was
| AN INDISSOLUBLE UNION,
and that no state even by going into
rebellion could lose its statehood, what
did the leaders OF this party do2 Even
| before this opinion was rendered Charles
Sumner introduced long resolution in
the Senate setting forth that the south
ern states had abdicated their sOvergnty
and must be ruled as territories by con-
gress. The result was that when the
war ended, by an act of congress and
without .-..
THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE,
thousands of white people were disfran-
| chiSed while every cOlOred man was al
lowed to vote. And in order to carry
this out the south was divided up into
districts, and each district was put un-
der the supervision Of brigadier gen
eral And furthermore, to consolidate
and keep consolidated the colored votes
the freedman's bureau was given thous-
ands of acres of abandoned lands, in
fact they were not abandoned, unless
the death of the father and scattering
of his family abandoned their lands.
| Congress appropriated millions of dol
| lars for it's support, and under the laws
enacted for the management the white
man could not employ the colOred with
out the supervision of the bureau or
the brigadier general. But the war did
not stop there. The agents of the freed
mans bureau gathered the cOlOred peo-
pie into
| OATH-BOUND LEAGUES
and they were sworn never to vote any
thing but the Republican ticket. They
| thus hoped to make the states where the
negroes were in the majority solidly
Republican and keep the others
solid for a while by disfranchiSing
the whites and maintain the Republi-
can party in power. Is it strange ther,
that under such system the white mel
began to feel the heel of the negro on
their neck? Is it strange that they
have no love for the Republican party ?
And what was the result? When the
white men of the South were enfran-
chised they voted with the men of the
North, who had shown some desire for
Justice and some compassion in their
behalf.
"But the south had worse things than
that to contend against. When | was
in the Senate there were men there
from the northern States who had gone
south simply for political preference
| and to become rich off the people. They
were the carpet-baggers. Even the
State governments were in the hands
of these people. Why, under this rule
South Carolina had cOlored legisla-
ture composed of sixty men, but two
of whom could read or write, and they
passed bill allowing each member a
private secretary at IS per day to do
his reading and writing. They ran that
State into condition of bankruptcy
and ruin There were other such gov
ernments in Georgia, Alabama, Louis
lana and other States until the whole
country was
RULED BY CARPET-BAGGERs,
| who destroyed everything, like pros
perity throughout the length and
breadth of the land. But
God in his wisdom released
them from this condition of affairs
and when they vote the Republicans
set up a howl. See the solid south; we
must trample them under foot once
more Why, John Sherman has re-
peatedly said there were men in Con
rress from the South who had no busi
ness there. If this be true why is il
that Mr.. Sherman, who has been there
SO often, has found no real evidence OF
fraud in their elections. He has ability
to find out such things. Nobody denies
that he has courage enough; no one
denies that, because the man who ha!
the courage to do what he did to make
Mr.. Hayes President, can never b'
charged with lacking pluck. And VIII!
have they found no remedy for it? Oh
fear my friend Sherman was
TALKING BUNCoMBE.
He knows he is helpless himself in thi
matter, having no more authority t.
dismiss a member of Congress than h
has to dismiss from the chancellorshil
of Germany Prince Bismarck. Tn
House or Senate have full charge o
, such matters. All he wants to accom-
, plish is to excite the people and kee